San Francisco-based Williams-Sonoma Inc. -- a specialty home furnishings and gourmet cookware retailer -- has decided to put a massive regional distribution hub in Dallas-Fort Worth.

Williams-Sonoma (NYSE: WSM) has landed at the newly developed Arlington Commerce Center, a 821,502-square-foot distribution center at 4900 Sherry St. near Interstate 20 and State Highway 360 in Arlington. The property was the only distribution center of its kind available for lease at the time of the deal.

"They decided to put a distribution center in Dallas-Fort Worth for a lot of the same reasons other companies are looking here," Chris Teesdale, an executive vice president for Colliers International, told the Dallas Business Journal."This strategically fit their supply chain model. This is a consolidation and expansion for them."

The retailer is able to ship to its Southwest customer base with a one- to two-day drive time, and it helps the retailer deliver on its Internet sales, Teesdale told me.

Williams-Sonoma is expected to hire more than 100 workers to operate its North Texas distribution facility. The company is working with the city of Arlington on an economic incentive package for the deal.

The details of the incentives were not immediately available Tuesday.

Colliers estimates there's about 14 million square feet of warehouse space under construction in Dallas-Fort Worth, which was fueled by an influx of industrial real estate deals totaling 17.2 million square feet in 2013.

"This was the largest building available in Dallas-Fort worth at the time Williams-Sonoma needed to get the operation going," Teesdale told me. "Their business has been doing very well. This central region was very important for them to get going."